anyone here get Scholastic/Bloomsbury catalogs?

[Richelle Votaw]

Petra wrote:

> Thanks for the info - it's good to know.  Though I'm curious to find out if 
> this means kids (and librarians) can't order from a Scholastic catalog the most 
> popular title that Scholastic sells and still get it around its release date.  
> That just doesn't seem quite right...wouldn't the catalogs be arriving around 
> now so the orders can be placed by customers and processed by Scholastic in 
> time for June 21st?  I can't remember - it's been ages.

Well, though I teach first grade, I order (for myself) from several of the age group catalogs.  Meaning the monthly ones that teachers distribute to students monthly.  Anyway, every time I place an order online, the order confirmation prints out with an ad to reserve your copy of OOP etc.  However, most US schools are out by June 21st.  Which presents something of a problem.  Book orders always ship to the school and the teacher distributes the books to the student.  So I really doubt they'll do orders that way.  I haven't gotten my June order forms yet, though, to know for certain (June is always the last month Scholastic does, it's usually a sort of clearance sale).  Of course, the Scholastic book fair is offering the books for you to preorder, but you have to pick them up at a Scholastic warehouse or a bookstore.  Interesting thought, I suppose they could do the same thing through the June order form--and just send a certificate to pick up the book.  Have to wait and see, I guess!

Richelle


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